In reptiles, the nasal scale refers to the scale that encloses the nostril. Sometimes this scale is paired (divided). In such cases, the anterior half...

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called the nasals. In colubrids, the nostril lies between the nasals, while in vipers it lies in the centre of a single nasal scale. The outer nasal (near...

enlarged and usually paired scale, just behind the rostral (and in front of the nasal scale). Rostral scale Nasal scale Snake scales Mallow D, Ludwig D, Nilson...

middle of a large, single nasal scale. The lower edge of the nasal scale touches the nasorostral scale. The supranasal scale has a strong crescent shape...

nasal scale—but often smaller in females. Below the supraoculars are six to 13 (usually eight to 10) small circumorbital scales. The temporal scales are...

separating them). The top of the head is covered with nine large plates. The nasal scale is often divided. There is one (rarely two) preoculars and two postoculars...

musical scale (the so-called Istrian scale), and the peninsula's two-part, slightly nasal singing. The two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale, a...

from V. ursinii by scales. The nasal scale is divided into two plates, alternatively it is united with nasorostralia. The rostral scale is as high as it...

mouth is bordered by six supralabial scales above, and seven (rarely eight) sublabial scales below. Its nasal scale is almost always undivided, and rarely...

usually paired and situated just behind the rostral. Nasal scales Rostral scale Snake scales Scale (zoology) Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes...

sort of "horn" on the head, either right behind the nasal scale, or behind the supraocular scales. The color scheme and camouflage of the members of this...

expanded ventral scales (similar to terrestrial elapids). Their body has a striped pattern, nasal scales are separated by inter-nasals scales, and the maxillary...

eye. Ten to thirteen small scales surround each eye, and two rows separate the eye from the supralabials. The nasal scale is large, single (rarely divided)...

raised sharp margins. The nasal scale is single (hardly ever divided) and separated from the rostral by a single nasorostral scale. The crown is covered with...

subelliptic. The nostril is pierced in a single nasal scale. There is no loreal scale. There are no preocular scales, the prefrontal entering the eye. The body...

phonology). The moraic nasal or mora nasal (hiragana ⟨ん⟩, katakana ⟨ン⟩, romanized as ⟨n⟩ or ⟨n'⟩) can be interpreted as a syllable-final nasal consonant. Aside...

prefrontal scales. Rather than a loreal scale the postnasal half of the divided nasal scale sometimes forms a suture with the preocular scale. They have...

the neck. The nostril is superolateral, pierced in a large semidivided nasal scale. The eye is moderate in size, with a vertical pupil. The body is slightly...

lizards have smooth scales on the throat and belly (C. tropidosternum has keeled scales) and its nostril is in the center of the nasal scale (the nostril of...

nonvenomous colubrid found mainly in South Asia. See snake scales for terms used The nasal scale is divided; the portion of rostral seen from above is as...

the nasal scale and preocular scale are in contact and the profile of the snout is more pointed; in B. fasciolatus the nasal scale and preocular scale are...

between upper preocular and nasal scale; 9–11 upper labials, first upper labial separated from nasal by suture; 2–3 small scales between upper labials and...

small eyes. 20–28 rows of midbody scales; dorsal scales smooth. The nasal scale has a postnarial groove; the subocular scale row is complete. Eyelids similar...

and seven (rarely eight) sublabial scales below. Its nasal scale is undivided. Its eyes have two postocular scales. The strap-snouted brown snake is found...

affinis. Ventral scales of this snake are large, one-third to more than one-half the width of the body; the nostrils are lateral; nasal scales are separated...

(“wandering cleft”) refers to the diagnostic morphology of the cleft in the nasal scale. The snake grows to about 32 cm in length. It is long and slender, with...

scales. The anterior head shields are strongly fragmented, but the frontal scale, supraoculars and parietals are complete and quite large. The nasal scale...

scaly. The ear-opening is distinct. The nostril is pierced in a single nasal scale. There are no supranasals. The prefrontals are small or coalesced. The...

This sac is an invagination of the skin between the supranasal and nasal scales and is connected to the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve. The...